Day: July 13, 2025

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Lonliness at a New Level?

As I spend another day trying to grapple with the loss of my wife of 28 years a question comes to mind? Is the level if loneliness reach a new level? My best guess is that it has and a major reason for that us the new found health scare I am going through now. She was always there to let me know that things were going to be ok even if she knew that was not the case.

When I returned to college after over 25 years away my first professor had this saying ” there are no solos” Of course she was referring to getting through college.

However, In many ways I am going through the most difficult time in my life physically solo and that makes a difficult situation even worse. We all need a physical shoulder to cry on and someone to say it’s going to be ok. I don’t have that like millions of others. For those of you who do cherish every single second because for those of us who don’t would give anything to have those kinds of relationships.

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True Friends During Hardest Of Times

Many people are proud of the number of friends they have or perceive that to be the case. The real truth is that you only find out how many true friends you have when your world is falling around you.

As my wife puts up a courageous fight against cancer I’m left to wonder why certain things have turned out the way they have so far.

Here is what I am referring to about a true friend. A true friend will be by your side regardless. They will be there to help you make the most difficult of decisions. They will be there night and day no matter what price they have to pay for themselves.

I do think that one of the major issues in this regard in the family of believers is that e-mail has made all of us lazy when it comes to reaching out to others. E-mails are fast and easy for all of us to hide behind when we really have other things that are a bigger priority. I also think people hide behind this stuff about not calling someone because they don’t want to interfere. What all of us have no way of knowing is that God wants us to make that call because only he knows what both need!